Harborough District Leicestershire England United Kingdom
52.6259733,-0.9970945

Houghton on the Hill

Houghton on the Hill is a village and civil parish lying six miles (10 km) to the east of Leicester in the Harborough district, in Leicestershire, East Midlands in England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,524. An entry for Houghton on the Hill is recorded in the Domesday Book. In 2007, the village made national news headlines, and was dubbed "the village of the scammed" when a large number of fraudulent credit card charges in the Far East were linked to the JET filling station. In August 2008, Sri-Lankan born cashier, Nyal Rajput, was jailed for two years and nine months after admitting to the charge of obtaining property by deception. A total of £175,000 was stolen in the scam.

Distance between:

London to Houghton on the Hill 86 Miles / 138 Kms
Liverpool to Houghton on the Hill 99 Miles / 160 Kms

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Population 2017: 1437 inhabitants